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Reasons For Impeachment

Now we've all heard that there were 3 presidents who were put up for impeachment:
1. Andrew Johnson
2. Bill Clinton
3. Richard Nixon (as a note, Nixon was never actually impeached, he just quit before he could be tried)

Now Johnson just tested the limitations of a law (the Tenure of Office act of 1867). He did this by trying to fire the Secretary of War, and that led to his trial. The house impeached him, but the senate didn't, so he stayed.

Bill Clinton admitted to having an affair after months of lying to people about it. Once again House impeached him, but the senate cleared him.

So my question is, should the disaster with obamacare, between the lying, the people loosing their healthcare, ect...,be enough to impeach Obama?

Re: Reasons For Impeachment

There are two big problems with trying to impeach Obama: 1) the Senate demorat majority and 2) Joe Biden.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

Re: Reasons For Impeachment

Originally Posted by JJB3333

Now we've all heard that there were 3 presidents who were put up for impeachment:
1. Andrew Johnson
2. Bill Clinton
3. Richard Nixon (as a note, Nixon was never actually impeached, he just quit before he could be tried)

Now Johnson just tested the limitations of a law (the Tenure of Office act of 1867). He did this by trying to fire the Secretary of War, and that led to his trial. The house impeached him, but the senate didn't, so he stayed.

Bill Clinton admitted to having an affair after months of lying to people about it. Once again House impeached him, but the senate cleared him.

So my question is, should the disaster with obamacare, between the lying, the people loosing their healthcare, ect...,be enough to impeach Obama?

its more than a lie it is actually classified as fraud and that my dear sir is a felony more then enough grounds for impeachment

Fraud Law & Legal Definition

Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage. Fraud may also be made by an omission or purposeful failure to state material facts, which nondisclosure makes other statements misleading.

Re: Reasons For Impeachment

Originally Posted by Gipper

When he commits a crime, I'll support his impeachment.

What Obama does is criminal, but he hasn't committed a crime.

the crime is fraud

Fraud Law & Legal Definition

Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage. Fraud may also be made by an omission or purposeful failure to state material facts, which nondisclosure makes other statements misleading.

Re: Reasons For Impeachment

Originally Posted by trfjr

the crime is fraud

Fraud Law & Legal Definition

Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage. Fraud may also be made by an omission or purposeful failure to state material facts, which nondisclosure makes other statements misleading.